[formerlurker]

I do not know about Perplexity because I avoid it. Instead, I prefer and pay for Claude over Perplexity because Claude offers actual privacy protections. All other services take in my data and use it to further train their models and that does not sit well with me because I had a stalker. It’s obvious that Perplexity is following the Google route of using people as products.

[serial_dev]

Just curious, what’s the connection between you avoiding services training their models based on your data, and you having had a stalker? What kind of stalkers you had to consider this an attack vector?

[formerlurker]

The bad experience made me realize how easily the data I put out there can be used against me or nefariously. If you have daughters you may know about people making indecent photos or videos using their images. Someone in Eastern Europe actually made an AI app to undress people. What happens when if I share more personal details and the data is no longer considered mine?

Do I need to really elaborate on all the bad experiences people, women in particular, face? I thought these were well known by now.

[arccy]

so you pay them to abuse other people's privacy (how else did they train their ai) but don't want them to abuse yours...